Magda Name Meaning & Origin
Magda
Origin of the name Magdalena:
Latinate cognate of Magdalene (of Magdala, a town on the coast of the Sea of Galilee).
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Hungarian nickname for Magdalena (Hungarian form of Madeline).
In Spanish, Magda is a nickname for Magdalena.
- Famous real-life people named Magda
Magda Franco, singer and actress
Magda Guzman, actress
Magda Szubanski, Australian Comedic actress, She played the farmers wife in Babe, and is on Australian Comedy Kath and Kim.- Magda in song, story & screen
Magda, warm but nosy housekeeper/nanny of Miranda Hobbes in the TV series "Sex and the City"
Magda was the old lady who lives next door to Mary in "There's Something about Mary"